The Slovenian Competition Protection Agency ("Agency") has lately increasingly been using unannounced investigations or so-called "dawn raids" in order to secure evidence of potential competition law breaches.

Slovenia is currently envisaging a new wave of privatisations. The looming sales are as-sociated with political pressure centring on certain non-economic conditions to be im-posed on the eventual acquirers.

During the summer of 2013, the European Commission initiated a public debate whether the scope of the EU Merger Regulation should be broadened to cover the acquisition of non-controlling minority shareholdings.